TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.2308
Mercury Rev Album Rankings
1
Music dictated not by logic but by intuition,Yerself Is Steamis an album at war with itself, split by its desire to achieve both melodic pop bliss and white-noise transcendence within the same space;
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2
WithBoces, Mercury Rev took everything that madeYerself Is Steamsuch an impressive debut and made their second album even more so.
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3
Four albums in and Mercury Rev remain as surprising and daring as ever -- exchanging the volcanic noise and twisted sensibilities of earlier releases for ornate arrangements and ethereal strings,Deser
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4
Make no mistake, this album sounds incredible: cascading orchestrations, pulsating and instantly memorable tunes, an atmosphere that's both accessible and palpably psychedelic.
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5
It took me a long time to figure out exactly what was wrong withAll Is Dream.
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6
Without relying on a crutch of irony and cynicism, they boldly risk sounding cloying in order to summon the emotional honesty necessary to create music that is unabashedly romantic and achingly beauti
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7
AfterDavid Bakerleft the group for weirder pastures, the rest of Mercury Rev returned withSee You on the Other Side, an album very much in the group's expansive, experimental tradition, yet distinct f
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